Failed to emerge net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.4-r200 ..... ERROR 404: Not Found

[julian67]

Running Funtoo current, all up to date.

 

This version of webkit-gtk seems to be deprecated upstream and no longer hosted:

>>> Emerging (3 of 9) net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.4-r200
>>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/webkitgtk-2.4.4.tar.xz'
--2014-10-11 17:38:06--  http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/webkitgtk-2.4.4.tar.xz
Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.236.52, 216.165.129.135, 64.50.233.100, ...
Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2014-10-11 17:38:06 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Actual existing, closest match version would be http://www.webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.4.4a.tar.xz

 

How should I proceed?

 

Report bug on gentoo bugtracker?

 

Can I edit the ebuild and build an available version?

[ellotheth]

I had the same problem. Created a bug: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-1612

[julian67]

Thanks for your reply and useful info.

[ellotheth]

No problem. For what it's worth, setting up the 2.4.4-r1 ebuild in a local overlay (I used the instructions at http://www.funtoo.org/Git_local_overlay) seems to be working:

1. Follow the wiki instructions until it starts talking about rain-slick (the blue text).
2. Create /usr/local/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk/files/
3. Copy the original ebuild from /usr/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk/webkit-gtk-2.4.4.ebuild to your local overlay at /usr/local/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk/webkit-gtk-2.4.4-r1.ebuild
4. Copy the original ebuild files in /usr/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk/files to your local overlay at /usr/local/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk/files
5. Fix the SRC_URI var in the ebuild by adding an 'a' before the '.tar.xz': 

   SRC_URI="http://www.webkitgtk.org/releases/${MY_P}a.tar.xz"

6. Create the Manifest file

   $ ebuild webkit-gtk-2.4.4-r1.ebuild digest

Now when you emerge webkit-gtk, it should pull from your local overlay with the fixed SRC_URI.

[julian67]

That's excellent, thank you.  My funtoo install is just a few days old so I am only just beginning to find my way around a lot of unfamiliar tools and procedures.  This kind of info is exactly what is required, both as a workaround and a useful learning experience.

 

best regards

[julian67]

This was almost a copy and paste job.  The only difference was that the version of webkit-gtk that emerge proposed to install was webkit-gtk-2.4.4-r200 so in /usr/local/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk/ instead of creating webkit-gtk-2.4.4-r1.ebuild I created webkit-gtk-2.4.4-r201.ebuild.

 

emerge installed this new higher version without error.  Thanks.

[expanderbolt]

 Very good indeed! Thanks ellotheth!

Your solution saved my day!

:)

[drobbins]

This has now been fixed in our Portage tree.